Fried Shrimp in Norwalk

3 restaurants in Norwalk list fried shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Famous Pizza House at $9.95. The typical price across town is $19.00, and the dearest we found is $28.00 at Elm Street Diner, so the two ends of the list are $18.05 apart, which is 181% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fried shrimp in 45 other areas and compare them all on fried shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Norwalk is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $21.75 in Montclair, NJ. The nearest area with it is Bridgeport, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest fried shrimp in Norwalk? Famous Pizza House, at $9.95 on 23 N Main St. The same dish reaches $28.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.05.

What should fried shrimp cost here? About $19.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Norwalk that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Bridgeport, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $0.04 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.